Special Guests

• Ambassador Melanne Verveer
  Director, Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security
• Ms. Zainab Hawa Bangura 
  Special Representative of the U.N. Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict
• Nobel Laureate Jody Williams - Violence Against Women: The Continuum
  Chair, Nobel Women's Initiative & Co-chair, International Campaign to Stop Rape & Gender Violence in Conflict
• Dr. Octaviano Canuto dos Santos Filho
  Vice President and Head of Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Network, The World Bank
• Ms. Patricia Sellers J.D.- Lubanga: Shifting Paradigms of Humanitarian Law
  Special Advisor on International Criminal Law Prosecution Strategies; International Criminal Court, The Netherlands
• Ambassador Donald Steinberg
  Deputy Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)

Panels

• Panel One: International Responses to Sexual Violence
  This panel critically discussed the existing global frameworks for addressing sexual violence in conflict and post conflict.
• Panel Two: National Responses to Sexual Violence
  This panel addressed the existing national frameworks for addressing sexual violence in conflict and post conflict.
• Panel Three: Perpetrating Sexual Violence
  This panel examined different explanations of the perpetration of sexual violence in armed conflict. Political, strategic, socio-psychological and historical perspectives were addressed.
• Panel Four: Surviving Sexual Violence
  This panel focused on victim-survivors of sexual violence in armed conflict, and discussed the ambiguity of victimhood.
• Panel Five: Security from Sexual Violence
  This panel addressed the idea of a global responsibility to protect individuals from conflict-related sexual and gender-based violence in particular, and critically discussed existing practices.
• Panel Six: Methodological Challenges and Opportunities
  This panel explored questions surrounding data-collection and how to generate good qualitative and quantitative data on sexual violence in armed conflict.
• Panel Seven: Concluding Roundtable Discussion: The Way Forward